Associate Director, Medical Portfolio Management (Neurology)

Associate Director, Medical Portfolio Management (Neurology)

Role Summary

The Associate Director, Medical Portfolio Management, reporting directly to the Senior Director, Medical Operations, serves as a strategic operational leader and partner to functional leads to develop high-quality, integrated, cross-functional plans that drive medical strategy. This role is responsible for ensuring Medical Affairs initiatives deliver maximum business value and long-term impact by moving beyond project tracking to focus on strategic alignment and benefit realization across the Neurology portfolio. The Associate Director manages a broad and evolving scope, identifying cross-project dependencies, and mitigating systemic risks to ensure all programs maintain a strategic fit within a dynamic market. This leader will manage strategic, financial, and operational planning, providing critical insights to the Medical Leadership Team through matrix influence and direct people leadership.

Primary Responsibilities

• Strategic Alignment & Value: Lead the design of integrated Annual Medical Plans (AMP) for the Neurology franchise, ensuring every initiative is mapped to core business value and long-term strategic objectives. Lead the teams and facilitation of strategic workshops and planning sessions to ensure all initiatives are anchored to core business value, long-term strategic objectives, and patient outcomes.

• Strategic Facilitation & Executive Reporting: Play a pivotal role in driving cross-functional forums, including Quarterly Medical Reviews (QMR) and annual US Business Reviews (USBR). Synthesize complex data and programmatic updates into high-impact reports, executive summaries, and senior leadership presentations to inform decision-making and strategic pivots.

• Benefit Realization: Establish frameworks to measure the long-term impact of medical programs, ensuring that project outcomes translate into tangible benefits for the organization and patients.
• Dependency & Risk Management: Oversee the Neurology medical portfolio to identify and manage cross-project dependencies and systemic risks, ensuring resource optimization across therapeutic areas.
• Change Leadership: Proactively manage organizational and programmatic change, ensuring the Medical Affairs team remains agile and aligned with evolving corporate strategies.
• Governance & Oversight: Develop and maintain governance for medical asset teams to ensure accountability, streamlined decision-making, and cross-functional transparency.
• Financial Stewardship: Oversee the annual Medical Affairs budgeting process, managing quarterly forecasting and ensuring financial decisions support strategic fit. Support resource modeling and optimization to ensure the Neurology franchise is equipped to meet strategic milestones.
• Contracting & Vendor Management: Oversee and support the end-to-end contracting process and strategic vendor management for the Neurology franchise. Ensure operational efficiency, timely execution of Master Service Agreements (MSAs) and Statements of Work (SOWs), and rigorous performance monitoring in compliance with Servier's standards.
• Matrix & Future People Leadership: Lead high-performing cross-functional teams (Medical Strategy, Field Medical, PV, HEOR, Sci Comms/Pubs, Medical Operations and Patient Affairs) through influence, with the expectation of assuming direct people management as the function grows.
• Operational Excellence: Champion continuous innovation by implementing digital tools (e.g., Veeva, project dashboards) and optimizing business processes to enhance systemic efficiency.

Education and Required Skills

• Advanced degree preferred (PharmD, PhD, MBA, or MS in Life Sciences)
• Minimum of 8+ years of progressive experience in pharmaceutical/biotech project management or medical affairs operations
• Expert proficiency in MS Project, Veeva Medical, and budget management tools
• Project Management Professional (PMP) training or certification highly desired
• Proven track record in Oncology and/or Neurology and/or Rare Disease
• Deep understanding of GxP, PhRMA Code, and global medical compliance standards

Travel and Location

• Estimate the amount of travel required: 15%
• Boston-based (hybrid) preferred; however, open to remote for the right candidate.

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Salary Range

The salary range for this role is $176,000 - $208,000. An employee's pay position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, performance, and business or organizational needs. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range, and the range may be modified in the future. Employees in this position are also eligible for Short-Term and Long-Term incentive programs. Servier also offers a competitive and comprehensive benefits package that includes benefits such as medical, dental, vision, flexible time off (Servier provides unlimited sick time and flex time, and does not accrue time off), 401(k), life and disability insurance, recognition programs among other great benefits (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). For more information on our benefits, please visit this link.